Academic Lineage

One's academic lineage is the sequence of PhD advisors.
The goal of the
Mathematics Genealogy
Project
is to compile data on all mathematicians through history,
in part seeking to trace the intellectual roots of the
discipline.

Thanks go to the Department of Mathematics
at North Dakota State University, which
maintains the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Eugene Fiume

Eugene FiumeProfessor of Computer Science, Toronto.

Alain Fournier

Alain Fournier 1943 - 2000
Scientist and poet who contributed to computer graphics in
the areas of stochastic modeling, illumination, light transport,
and sampling and filtering.

Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995
Fundamental contributor to theoretical computer science.
Created lambda calculus, proved Church's Theorem that first
order logic is undecidable, and proposed Church's Thesis (usually
called the Church-Turing Thesis) that effective computation is
equivalent to recursion.

Oswald Veblen

Oswald Veblen 1880 - 1960
Once president of the American Mathematical Society, he is known for
his work in topology, projective geometry, and differential geometry.

Eliakim Moore

Eliakim Hastings Moore 1862 - 1932
Contributed to algebra and group theory, as well as
algebraic geometry, number theory, and integral equations.

Hubert Newton

Hubert Anson Newton 1830 - 1885
American scientist who was among the original members of the
National Academy of Sciences. Contributed to pure
mathematics, but his most important work was empirical and
theoretical study of meteors.

Michel Chasles

Michel Chasles 1793 - 1880
French geometer and mathematical historian. Contributed to the development
of synthetic geometry and introduced the notions of cross ratio, pencils,
and involution.

Simeon Poisson

Simeon Poisson 1781 - 1840
French mathematician who received little regard from his contemporary
countrymen. Now famed for his work in a number of fields, including
probability and differential equations.

Joseph Lagrange

Joseph Lagrange 1736 - 1813
Self-taught prodigy, later a protege of Euler. Made crucial
contributions to the nascent calculus of variations, and
contributed to dynamics, mechanics, differential equations,
astronomy, probability, and number theory.

Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler 1707 - 1783
Said to be the most prolific writer of mathematics of all time.
The St. Petersberg Academy continued to publish unpublished work
by Euler for fifty years after his death. Made fundamental discoveries
in calculus (including the calculus of variations), mechanics,
differential geometry, number theory, and complex analysis.

Johann Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli 1667 - 1748
Swiss mathematician, among the first to explore calculus. His solution
to the isoperimetric problem was foundational to the calculus of
variations.

Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli 1654 - 1705
Swiss mathematician who contributed to many areas, perhaps most notably
to probability; we owe him the law of large numbers. He also made
strong contributions to algebra, calculus, and mechanics.

Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz 1646 - 1716
German philosopher, mathematician, and logician; held the aim of collecting
all human knowledge. Made many contributions to mathematics, the most
celebrated of which is his independent development of
calculus.

Erhard Weigel

Erhard Weigel 1625- 1699
German mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
who believed that the number was the fundamental concept of
the universe.